The meeting was called to order at 8:05pm EST via conference call by Mike Duke, Chair.
Present were: Mike Duke, Chair; members: Cindy Burgett, DeAnna Noriega and Charlie Hodge; Ex-officio member, Janelle Edwards; invited guest, Chelle Hart; staff: Melanie Brunson, ACB Executive Director.
A motion was made by Janelle, seconded by Deanna and passed to go into Executive session for matters of discussing the recommendation for the Braille Forum Editor position.
It was reported that the BOP went into executive session. During the time in Executive Session, Ralph Sanders, ex-Officio member, joined the call. The BOP concurs with the recommendation of the Executive Director that the position of Editor of the Braille forum be offered to Sharon Lovering.
Deanna reported that she reminded Donna about adding the BOP position to the agenda for the board meeting being held at the end of the month in Louisville.
Charlie raised the question of where we are with our budget for this year for the Braille Forum. Mike said he'd work on finding this info out with Minneapolis.
October 24, will be our next conference call meeting at 8:30pm EST. with the main topic being the 2006 budget.
Charlie moved to adjourn. The motion was seconded by Cindy. The motion passed and the meeting ended at 9:27pm EST.